Basically, I'm planning to ditch javascript pretty soon. I consider typescript to be a stop gap solution. I'd prefer to use something like Kotlin or indeed Rust. IMHO Kotlin is a great fit because it already is used for frontend work in Android. Also the transition from javascript to Kotlin is pretty smooth once you get over the stockholm syndrome that most javascript developers seem to suffer from (they don't seem to know better). I've seen a few people adapt to Kotlin and liking it. In my experience, these things tend to be driven by people voting with their feet. There's lots of early signals on Github that this is starting to happen.

I'd also prefer to opt out most of the npm ecosystem. IMHO, most of the stuff there is inherently javascript centric and not a great fit in a type safe environment that has things like generics, polymorphism, and other stuff that makes frameworks look and feel a bit differently. Even with type annotations like in typescript you get lots of leaky abstractions and you are still dealing with javascript when it inevitably blows up. Better to make a clean break with this and create a new ecosystem from scratch. And frankly, most npms are not that hard to replicate in another language.